Tennessee Republican Party

The Tennessee Republican Party (TNGOP) is the state affiliate of the US Republican Party in the US state of Tennessee. East Tennessee served as the party's stronghold during Reconstruction, with the rest of the state being controlled by the Tennessee Democratic Party. During the 1960s and 1970s, the state Republican Party began to push into the Democratic power as the Civil Rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 led to many conservative Southern Democrats defecting to the Republicans during their rightward shift. By the 21st century, Tennessee was solidly Republican, and the Republicans held both US Senate seats, 7/9 US House of Representatives seats, 28/33 State Senate seats, and 74/99 State House of Representatives seats.